Helping Humanity Think Better Together
An applied AI research and technology lab designing the methods, runtime, and applications that help people, institutions, and communities think, decide, and adapt together.
AI is changing intelligence. We are focused on something else.
Every day, AI becomes better at generating content, answering questions, and automating tasks.
Yet our greatest challenges, climate change, education, governance, healthcare, and economic transformation, are not problems of individual intelligence. They are problems of collective intelligence.
That is the question driving everything we build at Waka Power Labs.
Coherence is infrastructure.
Just as roads enable movement and the internet enables communication, coherence enables collective action.
Communities, schools, organizations, and governments succeed not simply because individuals are intelligent, but because they coordinate effectively under complexity.
We believe AI should strengthen that capacity, not replace it.
Three layers, one lab
Research
Developing the scientific foundations of collective intelligence and institutional coherence.
- Coherence Theory
- Observable Indicators
- AI Facilitation
- Ethics & Governance
- Ubuntu-informed AI Design
Runtime
The infrastructure that powers collaborative learning and decision-making.
- Mission Engine
- Event Engine
- AI Facilitation Engine
- Reflection Engine
- Indicator Framework
- Developer APIs
Applications
Real-world implementations built on the runtime.
- CoherencePlay, AI-powered collaborative learning
- Climate Adaptation Simulations
- Coherence Leadership, executive and institutional development
- Governance & Civic Participation
- Community Resilience Missions
We are not simply building products.
We are investigating fundamental questions.
How do groups become more coherent?
How can AI facilitate better collaboration?
What observable behaviors strengthen collective intelligence?
How should Ubuntu influence AI system design?
How do institutions learn and adapt under uncertainty?
What does responsible AI look like when decisions are made collectively?
Practice solving society
CoherencePlay
Practice solving society.
CoherencePlay is an AI-powered mission platform where learners develop collaboration, leadership, and systems thinking through immersive simulations.
Participants become engineers, teachers, scientists, community leaders, policymakers, and entrepreneurs, not to memorize answers, but to solve meaningful challenges together.
Launch PrototypeCurrent missions
- Save River Valley
- Build Tomorrow's City
- Food Security Challenge
- Community Health Response
- Climate Resilience
CoherencePlay is one of the first tangible applications of Coherence, our central research program. The same runtime also powers Coherence Leadership, built for executive and institutional teams practicing negotiation and shared decision-making.
The Coherence Runtime
Behind every mission is the same infrastructure.
The runtime enables anyone to design collaborative experiences that can be adapted across education, leadership, governance, healthcare, and climate resilience.
“I am because we are.”
Ubuntu is more than a philosophy. It is a design principle.
Rather than optimizing individual achievement alone, we design systems that strengthen relationships, shared responsibility, and collective learning.
This principle informs every layer of our work, from research to runtime to real-world applications.
Current initiatives
Research
- Coherence Thesis Published
- Coherence Indicators v0.1 In progress
- AI Facilitation Framework Next
Platform
- Coherence Runtime Building
- Mission Builder Next
- Developer Documentation Next
Applications
- CoherencePlay Prototype live
- Climate Decision Simulator Upcoming
- Coherence Leadership Prototype live
One research program. Many applications.
Coherence is our central research program. Every product below is evidence that the research holds, not a separate business built alongside it.
Education. Immersive missions for collaborative learning.
Executive practice. Negotiation and shared decision-making for institutional teams.
Healthcare. Coordinated decision-making across care teams and systems.
Public sector. Civic participation and institutional coordination.
Build this with us
We're building this with educators, researchers, developers, governments, philanthropies, and communities. Whether you're exploring AI, designing learning experiences, strengthening institutions, or studying collective intelligence, we'd love to collaborate.
- Research collaborators
- Pilot schools
- University partners
- Ministries of Education
- Climate and resilience organizations
- AI researchers
- Mission designers
From the lab notebook
Why AI Should Facilitate Rather Than Replace Human Decision-Making
Ubuntu as a Design Principle for Collective Intelligence
From Individual Intelligence to Institutional Coherence
The Future of Collaborative Learning
Designing AI for Collective Adaptation
A lab, not a finished product
Waka Power Labs is the applied AI research and technology arm of Waka Africa, based in Nairobi. We are systematically discovering, testing, and building the infrastructure for collective intelligence, alongside the researchers, educators, and communities testing it with us.